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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-12-09

LONDON. Dec. 1.-The problem Of the
presidency OF the french Republic grows
more intricate daily. Il 10 now almost
absolutely certain that The Republican
factions will not combine, though they
can not fail to see hat Il will be worse
Tor them II they do not and the Republic
Is confronted by the greatest danger
that has ever threatened It's e~xistence.
President Grevy has expressed bis deter.
mination to cling 20 his Office until he
knows who has been chosen as his success
sor. and Il Il further asserted that he Will
not ALLOW the newly-elected Presi-
dent TO succeed him unless be
shall be q Conservative and entire-
" acceptable to q large majority
Of the Republicans, ven going 90 the
length OF using military force toprevent
his taking possession Of the Office. How
NJ. Grevy could carry out this programme
no one can accurately Judge, but All who
know him believe that he would
make the attempt against almost
any odds IL be believed himself
justified therein. II n. Clemenceau
should carry the election, or the BouIan-
rer Extremists succeed in electing the
General. through combinations with other
sections. there will certainly be . row,
and q bloody one 1t that The excite
ment Is great and party and fsctionai
feeling Is wrought upto . point where the
slightest thing may cause an outbreak.
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waistcoat the demure
nuns corxage tapping
from right TO left.
and reyen Of every
shape and kind are
seen on the newest
Paris dresses II il
almost impossible 20
make the front Of the
bodice too dressy in
effect. or TO 60 far
assray in the design
The broad and snowy
directoirc reveu give
the effect Of breadth,
and are reen alike on
the richest and sim
plest gowns Collars
remain high and
close. often 70 exag-
Ocraf1Ou and are
often made Of two
fabrics. the M in
front matching the
vest or plastrcn, the
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one on the back and sides icing Of The
third material used for decoration. be it
braiding. embroidery. a contrasting ma
terial or corded silk finished with French
pipinga
In evening dress lark velvet bodices will
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In recently published reminis-
cenccs Of Dickens 1t is told that n
day the novelist picked up n Of q pile
Of books that had just been sent
s.Seems clever" he said, looking Il
over. Good style Isuppose that !
must read IT," The next morning he
said: sThat's a very good book, in
deed: but unless l am mistaken. George
Eliot Is a woman" The book was
"Adam Bede." just published ~. 7.
San
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again be worn over
airy skirts Of lace
tulle silk etamine and
crepe lisse MANY are
cut v shape or square
in the neck. with
drapery Of lace or
other d~iaphanous
textile over the
shoulders Very ef-
fective toilets h o
these skirts finished
with bands and loops
Of velvet correspond
ing with the bodica
Among the late i'm
~portations nre pink
camels hair tea gowns.
silk embroidered and
trimmed with narrow
bands Of dark fur.
Fancy mufFs made to
] match the toilet. and
formed Of a combine
ton Of materials. are
small and compact
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wife lin hoarsc whisper
aeli Moichael! Wake up! Thurs :
m~urtherin' thafc in the roomr' Mich
sel-.whist, now, Rosie; Be alsy.
hev me Of on'm. an q he fcinds ony
thing III III up an take Il froom im.
1--Hdrpsr's BGsars
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BrrrALo. N. ", Dec. 1.-The Commer-
ciaf's summary Of h business Of 1881,
published yesterday, says: THE season
Is q whole. has been q peculiar one. le
has been unusually profitable 20 owners o.
vessel property. Rates on grain, coal. orc
and lumber have ruled high during ths on
tire season. but Il has been . most disas-
trous one 70 insurance companies on &C
count OF the numerous heavy gales, ana
unsatisfactory TO canal-boatmen on ac-
count OF railroad competition at this port.
The movement Of chief articles Of com-
merce for the season has been very heavy
exceeding tina Of any preceding year,
/ with one exception. The total figures IN
| round numbers are as follows:
Rcceipts IL Buffalo, by lake-Grnin,
101. 100000 bu.; lumber, 265.00o.ooo feet.
| shipments at Buffalo, by canal-Grain,
| a. o0O.O D bu.; BY rail, 27.0o0,00o bu.; lum-
| Der. by canal, b5.0oo,000 feet; coal, ~
lake, 100000 tons.
An English Opinion o. Mrs. Cleveland.
Bosrox, Nov. 3j.--Mr. VIM. jones, Sec
rotary Of tho English Peace Society q
Philadelphia. In . letter 90 . friend u
England, tells OF : chat he recently had
With Mrs. Cleveland, concerning whom he
saws: Mrs. Cleveland impressed me as
being a woman OF noble aspirations Her
sympathy with suffering evinced IN her
feeling alIusions 70 Nashville y ths
south. where I was going, In reference %
which she observed: There you will IND
thew know something Of war In ~ reaii-
~; showed an earnest desire on her pars
az the establishment Of righteous . M
name National relations In place q sns
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Excavations in Rome.

The Roman archeologist, Prof. Ru-
dOlfo, has had for the past sixteen
years the absolute control of Roman
excavations. Speaking OF his work in
conversation, he said: 1.-THE excava-
tons in Rome are now being conducted
by the national government, the NUM-
cipal government and private citizens.
Hundreds of statues and busts we have
found, some of marble, others of costly
bronze, many in perfect preservation.
The Government has spent within the
last twelve years not far from 81, 0O0,-
600, but it has been n remarkable bust
ness investment, for the value of our
finds is placed at $4,OO0.O0O. So rap
idly is the work going on that we are
almost unable to store properly from
day to day the results of excavation. {"
AZ. Y. Post.
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VIENNESE COOKING.
rIands That Fal to Satisfy the Require
ments of an American Stomach.

rIands That Fan to Satisfy the Require
ments Of an American Stomach.
| The Austrians have never surrendered
themselves exclusively TO the French
cuisine. 1t is hardly true that they
have gone half way to meet it The
large hotels yield in measure to the
exigencies of tourist appetites, but the
restaurants, even those that call them
selves fashionable-thoSe in the Gra-
ben, for instance-retain their native
barbarisms. As regards quality of
cooking there is little difference be-
tween those of different grades. At
either you are sure to hlve bOuillon NIT
ei-that is, with an egg-and bouillon
Ohne Ell, nudel soup, goose soup and a
few other liquid introductions to the
dinner included by the French under
the general name of potage. Goose
you may depend upon in variety of
forms.~for the goose is bird of the
Danube, lending itself easily to the
wiles of the sportsman, and judging by
the frequency of its appearance on bills
of fare, flying low and at all seasons.
But goose is by no means the most
deadly resource of the Vienna cuisine.
1t is not invariably an Objectionable
-rticle of diet if you give due consid-
Grafton to its unctious quality end are
able to regard your couch through a
long perspective. There is veal, as
there is veal e.ywhere in Europe, and
usually of that uncertain age which is
neither calf, cow nor OK. There is
mutton occasionally, chicken now and
then, and beef, scarce and dear, COM
ing from attenuated animals whose day
of usefulness, either as milk-giving,
plow-pulling or cart-hauling in Boz
hemian valleys, on Hungarian plains,
or on the hillsides of romantic Syria,
is long since past. These various
meats are served up IN accordance
with the express stipulntions of a bill of
fare couchai in a tongue which the
whole civilized world long ago decided
had not the most distant relation to the
mysteries of the cuisine, to-wit: the
German. You usually pay dear for
beef and other meats. Your goose is
served at reasonable prices. 1t is
automatically divided, or is supposed
to be, into halves, quarters. eighths, or
portions. Considering the unctioust
ness of the viands, most people content
themselves with a portion literally
bathed in the process of mastication and
digestion with one of the white wines
of the country. Ham and eggs, the
ham of the country being excellent, can
be had served in a fashion that, with a
slight effort of the imagination, one is
able to think Vienna Cor.
San Francisco Chronicle.
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REALISM IN FICTION.
The Art of Interesting People i'm the Conn
mon Thines of Everyday Life.

The Art of Interesting People i'm the Conn
mon Things of Everyday Life.
1t requires great deal more imagi-
nation TO write realistic novel than
to write a fairy-tale; because the OBJ
ject of realistic story is not to repeat
common things, but to interest people
in common things; not to create I'M
common things, but to show people
that common things are not by any
means so uninteresting as they seem
at first sight. The realistic writer must
see, not new things, but new qualities
in things; and to do that, he must
have plenty of imagination. Those
whom You call ''old-fashioned writer's"
imagined that they must describe the
thoughts and looks and clothes and ac-
tons of a Princess, or some creature
out of the range Of everyday life; but
the realistic writers have discovered
that the thoughts and clothes and looks
and actions of little beggar-girl can
be made just as interesting to people,
if only YOU can see what is unseen
about them with your minds eve.
Now, which would You say had really
the nObler imagination-a man who
went into his library and wrote a re-
markable poem about The golden APP
pies of the Hesperides. that were pure
creations of his fancy, or Sir Isaac
Newton when he went and sat down
under common applet-ee, and set his
imagination to work to find out
what made the apple fall to the ground?
The realistic writer is 81 listed with the
everyday apple tree-tilat is quite GER
tain; but here is YOUR mistake about
him, he isn't satisfied with telling you
that the apples fell; he shows YOU how
they fell, and what a great. beautiful,
wonderful law of the universe caused
them to fall; and he makes You feel
that the law was all the more beautiful
and wonderful for not applying merely
to one particular apple, or even to the
whole class of apple trees, but to every
thing.
A little while ago you spoke of one of
MIR. Howells' heroines who tried to do
something and couldn't. Isuppose you
mean the poor rich girl who lost all her
money, and found that all her fine edu-
cation did not help her bit when it
came to earning her living. Now if MIR.
Howells had merely meant by that to
show girls how absurd it was for them
10 try to do any thing, it would have
been very cruel story; but 1 think he
merely meant to show the parents what
scrappy sort of education theywere Civ
ing their daughters, with all the money
they were spending for it.-Alice Wei
lin9ton Rollins, in ST. Nicholas.
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PERSIAN DISHONESTY.
Country In Which One Would Look In
Vain for An Honest Man.

Vain for An Honest Man.
Dishonesty is another besetting sin
of theirs. If Pope had lived in Persia
he could never h;rd hit of his terSe say
ing: "An honest mans the noblest
work of Godr' For he wouldn't have
seen one. The only difference made in
Persia is between permissible and for
hidden dishonesty. They technically
call the all-pervading species of scoun-
drelism peculiar to the country (and of
course permissible "khOrdan, i. e.,
to eat Every body in Persia leafs" in
this peculiar sense, from the Grand
Vizier down to the lowest nenial. The
wages of the soldiery are ''eaten"
(wrongfully appropriated as it would
euphoniously be termed in this coun-
:ry) by their officers, beginning with
the Minister of War, the third son of
the Shah. down to the Captains and
Lieutenants. The wages of the servants
are swallowed up, three-fourths by the
stewards and head servants, before the
money gets into the servants own
hands. The taxes of a province are
partaken of by the collectors, NOON
shoes (secretaries) and mirzas (scribes)
before reaching. their ultimate destina-
ton. The money paid out by the Shah
to repair one of his cardboard palaces
is "eaten" up on the way and never
gets there at all. Once his Majesty put
aside certain specified sum, intended
for the rebuilding of pavilion, for six
successive seasons, but nothing was
done. 1t was only the seventh time,
when he threatened to- make the re-
sponsible party head shorter if the
money were stolen again, that the
building was fitted up, and it is said
that even then two-thirds of the money
went into intermediate pockets. The
salaries of the Government officials 90
the same way. Another species of rob
berry. legalized by centuries of custom.
is termed "mudakhil." 1t is thievish
commission exacted by the paid en-
ploye, servant or official on every thing
purchased for the employer. As long
as the mudakhil remains within reason
able bounds, varying from ten to forty
per cent, it is considered the proper
thing. A man not transgressing these
limits may proudly call himself an hon.
est man in Persia. If he goes beyond
that he loses caste, though probably
nothing Wolf Uon Schier6rand, IN
~. Y. Graphic.
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MALICIOUS INFORMERS
What an Internal Revenue Oficisl Knows
About This Gentry.


About This Gentry.
Striking examples of the popular de-
sire for revenge daily come to the notice
If this office through persons with per-
sonal grievances trying to ayenge them
selves by having the terrors of the rev.
enue laws applied to their enemies
gratuitously. The information gener-
ally offered by those maliciously in
clined is based on a failure to observe
the special tax requirements of the
department. In most cases, so frequent
are they, we know what a would-be
infornier is going to say before he has
spoken. Generally the informer does
not wish to give his name, and acknowl-
edges at the outset that revenge for an
injury done i his only motive. He
gives detailed recital of a violation of
the law, and consoles himself with the
idea that he is periodically serving the
interests of Uncle Sam. and at the same
time paying of an old score. He is
generally surprised when asked who
the witnesses 30 the case are, and being
usually the only one himself, and not
being DESTROYS of appearing, of course
there is no evidence on which to base a
prosecution. Very often we are ap-
preached with the question whether in
such or such case the informant will
be rewarded for his information. When
assured in the negative, the ''feeler"
gracefully departs to more proftably
apply his knowledge elsewhere. Most
cases, however, are those of offers from
persons pleased to serve the Govern
mcnt and themselves without reward.
john AtTO0d, az 81. Louis Globe
Democrat
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THE CHEERFUL FACE.
A Heayen-Born Light Before Which All
Dreariness Must Vanish.


Next to the sunlight of heaven is the
cheerful face. There is no installing
1.-THE bright eye, the unclouded brow.
the sunny smile. all tell of that which
dwell within. Who has not felt its cleo
trifyin@ influence? One glance at this
face lifts us out of the mists and shad-
ows into the beautiful realms of hope.
One cheerful face in the household will
keep every thing warm and bright with
in. a host of evil passions may Turk
around the door, but they never enter
and abide there; the cheerful face will
put them to shame and flight. 1t may
be a very plain face, but there is some
thing in it we feel. yet can not express;
and its CHEEKY smile sends the blood
lancing through the veins for every
Joy. All. there is world of magic in
the plain, cheerful face! 1t charms US
with spell of eternity and we would
not exchange it for all the soulless beau
ty that ever graced the fairest form on
earth.
1t may be very little face, but
somehow this cherry little face ever
shines, and the shining is so bright
that the shadows can not remain, and
silently they creep away into the dark
corners where the pleasant face is
gone. 1t may be n wrinkled face, but
it is all the dearer for that, and mons
the less cheerful. We linger near il,
and gaze tenderly upon it, and say:
''God bless this dear, happy faceP'
We must keep it with us US long IL
we can, for home will lose much of its
brightness when this sweet face is
gone. And after it is gone, how the
remembrance of il softens our way
ward natures. When care and sorrow
would snap our heart strings asunder.
this wrinkled face looks down upon US.
and the painful tension grows lighter.
the way seems less dreary, and the
sorrow less heavy. God bless the
cheerful facet What dreary world
this would be without this heaven-boru
light! And he who has il not should
pray for his daily bread.--Honae US
tor
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AT the present day the tree veg
citation of Iceland is dwarfish in appear
ancc. trees fifteen or twenty feet in
height being rare. There is no doubt.
however, that extensive forests once
existed in the island. This is proved by
the abundance Of lockwood. The for
ests that remain are mostly of birch,
the trees being hardly larger than
bushes. The decrease of woodland in
Iceland is due not to any change of
climate or volcanic outburst, but 70 the
destruction OF the trees by the inhab-
itants themselves, who wanted. the
wood to use as fuel and for other pur-
poses.
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One of the most eloquent preachers
Of this city teils a good joke at his own
expense as fellows: 'When [ was in
Florida last winter i. preached to a
negro congregation one Sunday, ex-
susing myself from saying much on ac-
sount of my poor health. The colored
minister in his closing prayer said: o,
good Lawd, bless our Brother l.,
sho has preached to us in hes pore,
eeak way IN T. zs-iGune.
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too, too tiIesome for anything. Here
is an appropriate little DIT of Burdette's
in the rag bag, which, without his
permission, | will transpose to fit the
occasion.
She comes, oft times with clamorous gusA
Oft with defiant echoing rush;
Her foot falls early on the floor,
But fingers long-the female bore.
Soft is her voice as unbaked bread,
When speaking of some scandal dread;
Her talk is hatter than the floor,
But still she stays-the female bore.
Your brow, you know, is black as night,
Although you strive 10 be polite;
While all your heart is beating sore,
Because she will not go-that bore.
You move about, as if for space;
She smiles. but does not leave her place;
You almost close your ewes and snore,
But still she stays-the female bore.
oh, brick we w our windows tight,
Shut out the sun. the air, the light,
She'll use the chimney for door;
She will be in-the female bore.
Will says he believes in men get
ting married, and he says
he is not alone in his idea
that men who are without wOman's
influence are sure to 60 to utter wreck
aud ruin" l believe Will is right in
this and | have been bordering the ques-
ton with the following result partially
gained from the treasures of the rag
bag" When men get beyond the
pale of female society they become
very easily demoralized. Remove
from Their, the hope of ever meeting
womankind again, and they would
drift back to the condition of animals
very soon, and patiently await their
appointed change.
This was clearly demonstrated in
the army. Men who had been noted
for refinement and politeness at home
soon developed into roughs, not care
ing what they said nor what they did.
Some seemed to lOOse all sense Of
honor.
Nearly all writers charge this 70
the demoralizing tendencies of war.
1t was not demoralizing tendencies,
but demoralizing condition. The re-
straiDts of home, and the restraining
influences which are exercised by
women alone, were missing, and the
beast had full swing. 1t was easy to
distinguish between those who had
been well raised and those who had
not, and you could almost point out
those who had left real sweethearts or
respected sisters behind. These re-
tanned their gentemanly traits the
longest.
1t was not always the man who had
gone through the most books, or
whose diploma had the most big
names on it, that succeeded in the
f9ld. These were often the first ones
to fall before temptation. Then
came these go0dy-good fellows, who
were too good at home to join the av-
erage citizen in any sort of amuse-
ment. As soon as these felt that there
were no ladies in sight they cut loose
and went it blind. Those who fought
it out were the men who had been
raised to meet fate philosophically.
| wish that some of
our good friends, Wills and
mine would remember what / have
written aud get married done in par
ticular, who is well known and onght
to have home and wife because
this is the only real refinement which
he can count on. In the meantime, /
am yours as ever, DOLLY.
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George Pancake, of .Anoka, Mimi.
with his dog and gun, started to walk
to lumber camp. He met two men.
and leaned. on his gun as he talked ts
them. His dog jumped upon him, hi
the hammer of the gun with his paw
the gun was discharged, and Georg,
was shot dead.-E Y. Sun.
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"A cable dispatch from France says,
''The left viii decide upon the future
policy of the Government" When a
fellows left over here he very rarely
attempts to decide any thin~.-Paila-
Geiphia Call - s.r
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The laborer who is worthy of his
hire is also worthy of his lore.-Ez.
If it wasn't for the higher. there would
be no lower.-Hoosier Herald
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SOCIETY NEWS.

Any items of interest suitable Ter this depart
On mt, from Ssdsia or nei. hborirg places, are re-
spe italy solicited. We want -t-scjous, sctivs
and eneery lady correspondent In al the p,ishboi-
e towns tributary To Sedaliz. Address ali such
communications 10 Rosa 'Pearle, society reporter
JAsOo sfice. Ssialis, No.